Lost my drive coupler last week, and looks like my gimbal bearing needs replacing while I'm in there. I am using a 3-jaw slide hammer and it's not budging.
I don't see the 'dimple' that shows where the grease fitting needs to line up on the gimbal bearing. I'm wondering if there is another part...
I've created an impressive mess of issues, this will be a long post.
I have a 1986 Sunbird I/O bowrider 175 that runs awesome. It's been super reliable for the past 4 seasons. We took it out yesterday and had a pretty good day on the lake until the engine stalled while towing a wakeboarder.
I...
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I have a 1986 Sunbird with a 140 I/O and a Alpha One outdrive. The lower cable was seized on the boat when I bought it, and we have replaced it. The boat goes into forward and reverse gears fine, but coming off throttle into the 'idle' position [on either side of the 'neutral' position]...
I found this thread earlier on a search and it sounds like it worked for this poster, just double checking.
http://forums.iboats.com/mercruiser-i-o-inboard-engines-outdrives/140hp-mercruiser-outdrive-165-a-258447.html
We have a pre alpha 165 with a cracked lower unit housing. I found a...
Hello All,
My friend and I bought a 70s ski boat that has a Mercruiser 165 I/O in it. It started up on ether and ran when parked last year after blowing the exhaust boot.
We have been looking for a couple of days to figure out what type of Galaxie boat we have, and what engine came in it...
